Memories of Nine Years in 'Akká

Here is the translation of Kh tir t-i-Nuh-S liy-i-'Akk , the memoirs of Dr Youness Afroukhteh who served 'Abdu'l-Bah as His trusted secretary and interpreter from 1900-1909. These were difficult years when the Master was imprisoned in the city of 'Akk , His every move subject to misrepresentation by the Arch-breaker of the Covenant and his associates, and even His life in danger. At the same time the period saw the victories of the construction of the Shrine of the B b and the House of Worship in 'Ishq b d, and the rise of the Cause of Bah 'u'll h in the West. This important record, published in 1952 on the instructions of Shoghi Effendi, has been described as 'pre-eminent among those works dealing with the history of Covenant-breaking'. At the same time it chronicles the daily life in 'Akk of 'Abdu'l-Bah and of the little band of devoted believers whose chief joy in life was to be of service to Him; it also describes the pilgrimages to 'Akk of many eminent early Western Bah ' s including Thomas Breakwell, Hippolyte Dreyfus, Lua Getsinger and Laura Barney, the compiler of Some Answered Questions. Over those nine years Jin b-i-Kh n (the title by which Dr Youness Afroukhteh was honoured by 'Abdu'l-Bah ) served the Master in 'Akk as secretary, translator, envoy and physician. His account of some of the most significant events of the period, his graphic and stirring pen-portraits of 'Abdu'l-Bah , and the description of his own emotions - all expressed in a lively and at time mischievous language of humour and wit - make this volume uniquely memorable.